Sarah Shelander

Sarah Shelander

Sports Out of the Past

60 years ago - June 18, 1964“It looks like a gala event,” said Bill Schwartz, chairman of the Sleepy Eye Invitational golf tournament slated for Saturday and Sunday.

Man charged with sending sexual Snapchat messages to girl

A 36-year-old Sleepy Eye man faces felony charges on accusations he sent sexually explicit messages via Snapchat to a girl who told him she was 12 when they first met at a local restaurant.The case against Shawn James Severson involves messages that police recovered in May with a search warrant for Severson’s and the girl’s Snapchat accounts, according to a criminal complaint filed last week in Brown County District Court.

Center stage

Some of the area’s smallest sluggers took to the city’s biggest field Sunday for the Sleepy Eye Baseball Association’s annual Day at the Park.

Relay takes second at state

River Valley’s 4x400m girls relay team had plenty to be proud of after its second-place finish last week at the Class A State Track Championships – and it gave spectators of their last race plenty to cheer.The Wildcats ran so close with eventual winner Eden Valley-Watkins/Kimball that it seemed half the crowd at the track in St.

Sleepy Eye FFA attends Timberland Leadership Camp

Forty-three Sleepy Eye FFA members traveled to Sibley State Park near New London June 3-6 for Timberland Leadership Camp, a getaway focused on teamwork and sharing between FFA chapters.Chapter Advisors and State Officers do all of the programming, activities and food for the camp for the week, which included a hike to Mount Tom, teamwork activities, survival in the forest, archery and sessions about writing goals and the various opportunities in FFA.